The Rogue Liberation Library (RLL) was founded in 2018. One of their past volunteers, who had been working with books to prisoner programs for about 10 years, relocated to Oregon and brought a small collection of books with him. The library began by renting a space at the Peace House to store this collection in May of 2018.

The first year RLL received 30 to 40 requests per month. In February of 2019, it was formally adopted as a program of the Peace House. Peace House provides rent-free space, financial and administrative support, and 501c3 tax exempt status.

RLL sends books to people in state prisons in the Western half of the U.S., and federal prisons nationwide. Incarcerated people send letters requesting books. Volunteers have a library of donated books to pull from, and they select books that best fulfill each request. Books are then packaged and and mailed directly to inmates.

Each year RLL sends over 2,000 packages of books, with one to five books per package. Books are a gift to the person requesting them and are theirs to keep. They do not need to be returned.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Prison libraries, if they exist, are often underfunded with a limited selection of books and hours of access. Many prisoners lack money to buy books and are restricted from accessing Internet resources. Some facilities only allow new books to be shipped directly from the publisher or approved vendors (such as Amazon), but many families and friends cannot afford to purchase books to mail to their loved ones behind bars.

Some people have been incarcerated for so long that they no longer have connections on the outside. Programs like RLL are one of the few options available to prisoners in need of books.